On gendering texts : female and male voices in the Hebrew Bible / Athalya Brenner-Idan, Fokkelien van Dijk Hemmes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brenner-Idan, Athalya, author.

Dijk Hemmes, Fokkelien van, author.

Series:

Biblical Interpretation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, [1996]

Summary:

On Gendering Texts is a wonderful book in a field that demonstrates its maturity by this publication.It discusses the important and traditional issue of authorship.Whereas the idea of a unique and divinely inspired biblical author has long been abandoned, the issue of authorship itself has not.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

I Traces of Women's Texts in the Hebrew Bible

1. Methodological Considerations

A. The Importance of the Search for Female Authors

B. The Model of "Women's Culture"

C. Goitein's Method

2. Victory Songs and Mockery Songs

A. Victory Songs

The Song in Honour of Saul and David

The Dance of Jephthah's Daughter

The Song of Miriam

The Song of Deborah

B. Mockery Songs

3. Wisdom and Warning Discourse

A. Wisdom Speeches

The Wise Women of Tekoah and Abel

Abigail

Lady Wisdom

B. Warning Speeches

The Mother of Lemuel

The I Persona in Proverbs 7

4. Prophecy and Soothsaying

A. Prophecy

Huldah and Deborah

Miriam

B. Soothsaying

5. Love Songs and Songs of Harlots

A. Love Songs

B. Songs of Harlots

6. Laments and Rituals of Lament

A. Laments

Lady Jerusalem in Lamentations

B. Rituals of Lament

7. Vows and Prayers

A Remark (By Way of an Introduction)

A. Vows

B. Prayers

8. Birth Songs and Naming Speeches

A. Birth Songs

B. Naming Speeches

9. Final Considerations

II Proverbs 1-9: An F Voice?

The "Female Rebuker" Figure

The Frame of Proverbs: F Personas and Voices, M Discourse?

Father's Instruction and Mother's Instruction in Proverbs 1-9

The "Female Onlooker" Figure

The Other Woman

Woman as Other

The F Wisdom Figure

Chapter 31 - A Mother's Instruction to Son, and to Daughter

III M Text Authority in Biblical Love Lyrics: The Case of Qoheleth 3.1-9 and Its Textual Relatives

Qoheleth 3.1-9: A Framed Male Love Lyric?

Qoheleth 3.1-9: A Poem within a Frame

The Language of the Frame

The Language of the Poem: Verses 2-8

The Poem out of Context: Structure and Sense

Verse 5: The Central Stanza.

Verse 5a-b: The "Sexual" Interpretation

Stones, Sexuality, and Gender Relations

The Poem in the Light of Verse 5

Qoheleth 3.2-8: An M Poem of Desire

3.2-8: A Single Act of Composition or the Product of a Gradual Process?

Another Instance of Borrowing from Conventions of Love Poetry in Qpheleth?

Quoting and Framing: Back to Verses 1 and 9

Proverbs 30.18-19, 20

Samson's Riddles

Other Instances of M Love Poetry: Some Notes

In Conclusion

IV Divine Love and Prophetic Pornography

The Metaphorization of Woman in Prophetic Speech: An Analysis of Ezekiel 23

The Marriage Metaphor in Hosea

Features and Functions of Pornography

Ohala's and Oholibah's Perversion

M and F Readerly Responses

On "Jeremiah" and the Poetics of (Prophetic?) Pornography

The Husband-Wife Metaphor: A Propaganda Vehicle

General Definitions of Pornography and Biblical Pornography

Feminist Definitions of Pornography and Jeremian Pornography

Story of O

The Story of O and Jeremian Pornography

Afterword

References and Additional Bibliography

Index of Ancient Sources

1. Biblical Passages Cited

2. Others.

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ISBN:

90-04-27117-1

OCLC:

1369640848